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This section features the latest news, comments and press releases from our offices around the world, covering all aspects of surveying practice and also current developments within RICS.

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The Department of Health (DoH) has submitted its final tranche of 72 projects procured using ProCure21+ to BCIS for analysis and publication as elemental cost analyses via BCIS Online. The contract value of the projects total over £700 million. This will further increase the sample sizes of health-related projects available to BCIS subscribers.

The BCIS five-year forecast for the facilities management sector sees maintenance cost inflation rising by 2.3% to Q3 2018 and by a further 2.6% to Q1 2019. It is then forecast to rise by between 2.9% and 3.8% over the next three years.

No one who saw the pictures of the horrific scenes of the Grenfell Tower fire in London can have felt anything other than shock and deepest sympathy for the victims, their families, friends and all those affected.

The BCIS Online featured project for September 2017, submitted by Selway Joyce Construction Cost Consultants, is the recently tendered £4.8 million conference and community centre in Chichester, West Sussex.

On 7 July 2017, the first meeting of RICS Buildings Fire Safety Group was held. This RICS working group will address concerns and recommendations in response to the Grenfell Tower disaster, with RICS professionals coming together to set out the best possible strategy and counsel.